Altera has announced it will utilize low-power process technology from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) for its low-cost and midrange 28nm FPGA chips in order to provide customers a broad selection.

The additional 28nm FPGA families will be announced in 2011, Altera said. The company announced in April 2010 that its high-end 28nm Stratix V FPGAs will be manufactured on TSMC's 28nm high-performance (28HP) process, with sample shipments slated to begin in the first quarter of 2011.

Altera indicated TSMC's 28LP process enables it to bring costs and power down in its low-cost 28nm products to address cost- and power-sensitive applications in market segments that include automotive and industrial. The 28LP process also delivers an optimal balance of cost, performance and low power within its midrange product family, the company added.

"Customers need the highest performance with the highest transceiver speeds at the high end, the lowest cost at the low end, balanced performance and cost at the midrange and low power consumption everywhere," said Vince Hu, vice president of product and corporate marketing at Altera. "With our 28nm product portfolio Altera will deliver the broadest product offering we have provided at any previous process node in order to serve these market segments."

In other news, fellow company Xilinx recently announced its 28nm 7-series FPGAs would be built using the HKMG high-performance, low-power process (28HPL) at TSMC. Xilinx said the choice of TSMC's 28HPL process provides a comfortable power budget in the package for integrating FPGA die.

By: DocMemory
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